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@EVIL-C Came here to say this, was not disappointed. Still waiting for that.

@VoidPunk Oh, I don’t disagree. I didn’t realize you were going for sarcasm there, thought it was an honest misunderstanding!

@VoidPunk The first line of this article: “Last week, Xbox officially brought its cloud streaming service to Amazon Fire Stick devices, allowing anyone with a compatible controller to enjoy hundreds of titles with a Game Pass Ultimate membership.”

@armondo36 With AC towers, don’t forget the AC towers!

@NEStalgia Thank you for the chuckle, I needed that today!

@Vordus That’s what I was hoping.

I bought five three-month cards on steep discount a couple weeks after I bought my series X, and was holding them for a rainy day. Glad to know!

Does this affect any of the three month GPU prepaid cards out there?

I.e. someone bought a few cards months ago and then redeems one tomorrow. Any reduced time issues? Or is this purely for monthly, period?

@Th3_Highlander No guilt intended! I just couldn’t wrap my brain around the reason you left is all. It sucks having your platform of choice get nitpicked, but DF does their job and USUALLY impartially. Usually. Obviously no one can be completely objective, and fanboyism may soak thru a bit.

Just remember, if you limit yourself to only the stuff you want to hear, that’s all you’ll end up with! Be well!

@Bobobiwan Why would they? Sony is in a position of strength here, like it or not. MS is obviously setting up for the likely-inevitable-but-not-guaranteed ending of the XBox console lineup next generation and is making sure there’s a demand for their titles.

Sony has no need to reciprocate on the XBox side. PC, sure. But why would they move even a few games outside of The Show (which they were forced to do by the MLB) to XBox when their current strategy is clearly working?

@WhiteRabbit @GeeEssEff Likely because a lot of PS players also own Switches, so either way they have access.

Before I added in a series X, my gaming combo was PS and Switch. I just got the Switch Ori titles and moved on with my day.

@Th3_Highlander It just confuses me how this is a thing that made you stop watching them. Little stuff like that between versions is what they're SUPPOSED to catch, is it not?

Either way, to each their own! I guess they did their job, their entire raison d'etre too well!

@Th3_Highlander You stopped watching when they did…what they’re supposed to do, i.e. point out differences in game ports and such?

@OldGamer999 as far as quick resume goes…I see the value, but I prefer the PS4/5 rest mode. Sure it’s limited to only one game at a time…but it works for ANY game.

I’m playing FF13 via backwards compatibility on my series X and…no quick resume. If my series x shuts down, gotta start from scratch.

If that were running on my PS4/5 (which it can’t, since it’s a PS3 game, but still!) I could drop it into rest mode and come back.

Just a minor thing for me, but it does irk!

@NEStalgia I don’t know, all I can tell you is what I experienced running the client on my series X and what Xbox players in my FC are experiencing. This is text only, of course.

Xbox is the worst platform for FF14 currently. I wanted to recommend it to a friend I work with, but his only console is a series X and I knew it would INFURIATE him to experience.

@NEStalgia The XBox built in censorship is ludicrously stupid. Because “raids” contains “aids” it censors it. So much silliness.

Raids are PART OF THE GAME.XD

They still haven’t fixed the overzealous chat filtering, so that automatically means my PS5 is the only way I’ll play.

Once they fix that, I might mess around with the XBox version. Till then, I feel sorry for gamers who play with friends and don’t want words like “knight” and “raids” censored.

That said, I’m enjoying the expansion. Pictomancer and Viper are fun to play, and I like the (so far, anyway) lower stakes goals. It’s hard to top Endwalker and comparing it to Dawntrail is a tiny bit unfair since EW was the end of a gigantic storyline and DT is the start of a new one.

@NEStalgia The Marathon trilogy was my jam. I remember playing the original on my old Power Macintosh 7100 and thinking it was the pinnacle of gaming! You’re not wrong about the teeny little Mac area, though.

I so hope we get a Marathon trilogy release for PS/XBox someday. Not this in-name only current!Bungie is trying to shove at us.

@MikeOrator Never had one in my life, and I’ve had darn near all the systems since the Atari 2600! NES, Genesis, N64 and Dreamcast, PS1-5, GameCube, Wii U, Switch…

Never an XBox though. Had a grudge against XBox when I was younger, both because I was a Mac user and because MS bought Bungie. Jerks took Halo for their exclusive after it was promoted for Mac! Betrayal!

Guess I’m mellowing in my old age now!

…a day 1 gamepass game that’s an XBox exclusive not making a sales chart is one of the least surprising things ever.

@MikeOrator That’s been my experience so far. The performance difference is negligible at best, with very few exceptions. Tested a few games on game pass while I had it compared to my PS5 versions and felt no difference other the cheaper-feeling XBox controller.

Given a choice, I go for the PS5 version unless there’s some compelling reason. One on sale when one isn’t, or other reasons. For example, the Cyberpunk complete edition: the PS5 version has the base game on disc and a download code included for the DLC. The Series X version has the full game including Phantom Liberty DLC included on disc. I respect that VERY much.

It’s weird straddling both platforms now.

A solid C.

I’m a rather new owner of a Series X, and while it’s a good console…I much prefer the PS5 or Switch. Just more and varied games.

I don’t HATE my XBox. I’ve been playing the heck out of FF13 via backwards compatibility, for example. But I could just as easily play it on my PS3 as well.

I’m not a racing fan, so I don’t care about Forza. Never been a Bethesda fan but Starfield isn’t bad. Never played the Halo series so I’ll be doing that.

There’s just not a lot of…DRAW to the XBox for me. I mostly got one so I could have full access to all the consoles and games. Heck, I’ve picked up about twenty disc based games, most of them used and most of those being XBox One native games like Sunset Overdrive and Dead Rising 3. Plus a few cheap multi platform games I never got around to on PS.

So I’ll rate the Switch a solid A, the PS5 a B+, and XBox a C for this (and last, with the Switch in there) generation.

It may sound like I’m hating on it, but I’m genuinely trying not to. I’ve always had a major dislike of MS, and I fought that off to buy my series X in the first place, I might add!

I will say that I hate Smart Delivery, though. Hate. The whole point of having a physical game for me is having the game and I’d much rather have the Series X version on disc than have to download 40-60 GB because it’s the XBox one version.

Mini rant over.

Ah, change.org petitions.

I’m sure this will be amazingly effective and totally not ignored.

Wow. It took that long for Blacksad to come to XBox? That is not a name I expected to see on a new release.

@evan23 it’s a bit sad, really. I got my Series X a couple months ago (my first Xbox!) but I’m FAR more invested in my PS5 and Switch. That said, I have bought 23 disc based games for it (most used) and think it’s a nice console. Do I much prefer PS 4/5? Absolutely, but I’m willing to admit MS did a good job on this hardware in general.

Amusingly my Series X’s main function for me right now is as a FF13 trilogy backwards compatible machine. MS gets props from me as being the only console manufacturer that lets games like FF13 and the original Assassin’s Creed run on it. sighs at the old PS3 copies of these games I’ll probably never launch again

@Jireland92 That logic would be applicable if it were coming to XBox One.

It isn’t.

Final Fantasy 13 via BC on my series X.

Trying to get through it before Dawntrail launches for FF14! Which I will be playing on PS5, of course, due to the utterly idiotic over-censoring of in-game chat on the XBox side that, to my knowledge, STILL has not been addressed or even acknoweldged by Squeenix or MS.

Zero interest. I just picked up a Series X for $449 a couple months ago, my first XBox.

These releases are a bit laughable to me.

I can’t imagine The Mouse will let those Star Wars mods stand too long…

@cburg I mean…you have time to complain here about people complaining. Doesn’t take much!

@TakeItEasy After telling the regulators during the ActiBlizz purchase that they wouldn’t keep established cross-platform games from going to other platforms, they’d look fairly silly if they kept Doom off of PS. Same with CoD and the like.

Either way, I own a PS5, Switch and Series X so I’m good no matter what!

@TakeItEasy Doom has a history of being on other consoles. Horizon does not. Key difference.

Mind you, I’m still shocked that Lego Horizon is getting a Switch version…

I await the wailing and gnashing of teeth from those opposed to this, and the cheers from those who are for this.

For any Americans, Best Buy has the current Series X for $399. Today only.

Snag it, it’s a bargain compared to these!

@jesse_dylan Of course they do. There are exceptions like Jedi Survivor, but most games play just fine without updates.

Two game rental machines and an actual full console for $100 above what the 1 TB X cost.

Glad I got my Series X when I did, I guess! Yes, I know the all digital future is coming. I just refuse to participate.

@ValentineMeikin “Of course, you won’t be able to interact with other players without having really silly censorship and words like ‘knight’ and ‘raids’ being X’d out, but you can still play it on XBox!”

…I hope MS and Squeenix get their act together. I feel sorry for my friends who play on XBox, it’s a crapshow right now communication-wise.

The mere lack of an optical drive makes the S a no go for me. I’m one of those dinosaurs who still prefers his games on disc, and the moment we go to all-digital machines is the moment I FINALLY focus on my extensive backlog of games.

…part of me almost hopes it happens sooner so I can justify focusing on them quicker.

And nothing of value was lost!

Give me a physical copy and I’ll consider buying this game.

Till then, I guess I’ll sleep on Alan Wake 2.

@CallMeDuraSouka “My god, someone isn’t satisfied with gamepass additions! They must be a Sony fanboy!”

Or or OR they just…don’t like the games? Nah, couldn’t be, must be fanboys. XD

@Sifi Wouldn’t know, I don’t use anything beyond PS Essential on my PS5, as my game backlog is freaking GIGANTIC and have enough trouble playing the games I own, much less the catalogs on there or (for the most part) on Gamepass for my Series X.

@DoubleDog So…because someone isn’t impressed with the games, they’re automatically somehow a PS troll?

That’s kind of a sad viewpoint. PS fans complain every month about PS Plus, and I sincerely doubt it’s “X-Bots hurr” who are doing said complaining.

Xbox fans are allowed to (and DO) complain/and be dissatisfied as well.

“Meanwhile, non-Bethesda studios and employees still wonder day by day when they’ll get canned.”

@carlos82 @Gamer_X Exactly. Pretending that it isn’t surprising that a MS-bought existing property doesn’t end up being exclusive is disingenuous at best. As someone who has been a PS guy since day one and just recently dipped their toes into the Series X as their first Xbox, I’m happy to see games hit both sides. (Though I’ll mostly buy those games on PS for consistency’s sake except when discounts are involved. I AM still primarily a PlayStation guy! )

Now MS just needs to step up the game a bit if they’re going to do exclusives at all going forward. Hellblade 2 is a good start, I have 1 for PS and just replayed the first one on Gamepass as well.

@Gamer_X The previous Hellblade was on PlayStation, why not Hellblade 2?

I mean, it’s kinda noteworthy here, given MS owns Bethesda…

@Tasuki I’m quite aware of this, but this just looks really, really, REALLY bad given the last couple weeks.

Microsoft: “We are closing these studios. We wish them well.”

Also Microsoft: “HERES A COMPLETELY NEW STUDIO, ENJOY!”

@Kooky_Geezer Fair! As a PS/Nintendo fan who just recently picked up a Series X as his first XBox and a companion to the PS5 and Switch, I just see this as a win for all the platforms. PS will still be my focus, but I’ll encourage devs to make good games on all the platforms I own.

@Kooky_Geezer MS made it clear for years that Japan wasn’t their target audience. Late launches, barely any promotion… Unsurprising that Squeenix didn’t go all in for quite a while. Now that they are, I’m sadly unsurprised by the “too little too late” reaction from some folks.

If you don’t reward good behavior/games with your dollars, why should they even bother to release anything? Not attacking you personally, please don’t get me wrong. You’re just the first comment I saw here with this opinion.

@Bobobiwan With all the annoying decisions MS has been making lately…a physical PS5 copy might be the best way to play this long term. I no longer have confidence another gen of XBox consoles will be coming down the pike, but you know there’ll be a PS6 and it’ll likely have an optical drive.